The Politics of Globalization: How Trade Became a Four-Letter Word

In 2002, a year after China joined World Trade Organization; the U.S. was the number one exporter worldwide. By 2010, Germany had overtaken the U.S. and by 2012, China had emerged as the worlds top exporter. We’ll take a look at China’s ‘one belt, one road’ (OBOR) initiative and the China 2025 plan evaluating how it aided China in emerging as a dominant force in both trade and the global geopolitical arena as both a player and a disrupter.

Guests: Yasheng Huang, Profesor of International Management at MIT Sloan; Deborah Lehr, CEO, Bassilina and Vice Chairwoman, The Paulson Institute, and Juliana Liu, Editor, South China Morning Post.

IOP Spring 2018 Resident Fellow Fred P. Hochberg